5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A delightfully surprising romance, August 4, 2005
This review is from: Hearts Under Construction (Love Inspired #306) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book had great conflict with a few surprises along the way which certainly kept me reading from cover to cover. It was quite unpredictable and had a positive message in a "non preachy" way. I plan to read more of this author's books as it was very entertaining.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book, October 8, 2005
This review is from: Hearts Under Construction (Love Inspired #306) (Mass Market Paperback)
I really liked this book. It was a sweet story. And I liked that the main charecter wasnt some beatiful girl like in a lot of stories out today.
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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pleasant, if predictable., August 3, 2005
This review is from: Hearts Under Construction (Love Inspired #306) (Mass Market Paperback)
Diann Hunt, Hearts Under Construction (Steeple Hill, 2005)
What, really, does one say about a romance novel that hasn't already been said? I could focus on the generic plot, the endless repetition of the theme and the various kinks in it, the cardboard-cutout characters, etc., etc., etc., as has been done since the dawn of Dame Barbara. It's all here, as it has been in most every romance novel I've read in the past twenty years or more. But that sort of predictability is exactly what the readers of this sort of stuff seem to want. (And does no one else find this a tad strange?)
While the book's Christian slant suffers from the same flaws as the rest of it (mentioned above), the overall effect here is that what would otherwise come off as unbearably preachy here comes off as nothing more than being true to one's genre. Go figure, finally, a use for genre cliché. The expected upside to this being a Christian romance is that things never get all that hot and heavy; rather like the charming chick flick Return to Me a few years ago, Hearts Under Construction makes it seem like that first kiss is actually what all the fuss is about. And as anyone familiar with the history of modesty knows, there was a time when that was actually true.
It's genre romance, of course, and thus you can bring all your prejudices to the table, but when al''s said and done, it's certainly not bad genre romance. Just prepare to get frustrated at how stupid people can be, when simply talking to one another would have cleared things up in an hundred fewer pages. ** ½
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